February, 2011
Everett True: finally, some recognition for white indie male acts
Notice anything familiar about any of the acts? Yes, they’re all from that broad church… white indie music, writes music critic Everett True.
Maley: making up China’s growth
According to the Chinese zodiac, the year of the rabbit is now under way, a time when investors will be hoping to see increased tranquility in share markets, in place of the wild swings of recent years. But there’s upcoming instability in the Chinese economy, writes Karen Maley.
Hamilton: Queensland being sacrificed to our inaction
Queensland is being sacrificed to Australia’s and the world’s unwillingness to take global warming seriously.
Garnaut on climate science: it’s a ‘pretty sad’ story
The Garnaut Climate Change Review delivered in 2008 was a massive document — 630 pages — and possibly too much to digest, comment on and report on in one go. Professor Ross Garnaut clearly thinks Australia has been a slow learner, so he plans to deliver his 2010 update in installments, writes Giles Parkinson.
The political donations data is nowhere near the full picture
The material released this week by the Electoral Commission only gives a partial picture of who is funding our political parties.
Dumped detention volunteer chief hits back at Scientology claims
For a volunteer group and charity, suspected Scientology influences never play well. Neither do revelations of lax paperwork. But when both of those details combine — and you work in immigration detention — well, you’d better hold the front page.
Why is the ADF’s amphibious fleet worn out?
The real story about the burgeoning deficiencies in defence force amphibious vessel capabilities is that both sides of politics are being less than correct historically when trying to attribute blame for it, writes Neil James, executive director, Australia Defence Association.
Age left half-Naked after Rule exit, and Sly could follow
Speculation has reached fever pitch that storied Age journalist John “Sly” Silvester will join his colleague Andrew Rule at News Limited, after Rule defected to the Herald Sun yesterday.
TV or not TV, that’s the question for Harvey et al. It’s not
There’s been another bit of unfortunate news for the campaign by Gerry Harvey, Myer, Solomon Lew and other retailers to levy a GST on offshore internet purchases under $1000.
‘Death to Mubarak’ is extreme: just let him finish packing
This morning is quiet again in Alexandria: the fishermen are casting their nets in the harbour, street vendors are selling burnt corn and cars are whizzing up the Corniche on their way to work. Or what’s left of it. But the worst may be yet to come, writes Vickie Smiles.
Al Jazeera English’s Cairo performance: it’s the new CNN
If the first Iraq War in 1991 made CNN’s reputation, surely its ongoing coverage of the Egypt uprising should cement AJE’s reputation as a world-class broadcaster.
Daily Proposition: Draw someone in the nuddy
If you’ve never seen a grown woman impersonate a starfish in the nude you’ve never lived, says Alexandra Patrikios.
Media briefs: Much ado on Overington … Tassie ALP’s cash cow …
Communicating an ALP cash cow, plus speculation continues to swirl that Fairfax Media are preparing, George Hearst-style, to make a multi-million dollar strongarm bid for Antony Catalano’s Weekly Review and other media news.
Political snippets: World food prices surge to a new historic peak
World food prices surged to a new historic peak in January, for the seventh consecutive month, according to the updated FAO Food Price Index released overnight.
Video of the Day: How to make a magazine
A glorious look at the making — from editorial meetings, to production and printing — of Little White Lies, a UK film magazine. It’s set, rather perfectly, to Swan Lake’s A Swan is Born.
Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours
Knives out for John-Paul Langbroek? Senior LNP figures are furious at the recent antics of Queensland opposition leader John-Paul Langbroek and leadership spill talk is again doing the rounds of George Street. His political skills during the flood and cyclone emergencies have been found severely wanting with some particularly odd behaviour on display on Wednesday. […]
Crikey Says: Crikey says: the patented Thorpe media formula
Thank you, Crikey reader Tim Deyzel for one of the more comprehensive shellackings we’ve received for some time.
travel 
Boobs, babushkas and the Black Sea
Odessa was once the pearl of the Black Sea, a holiday playground for the USSR’s rich and famous. But amongst the crumbling architecture and the semi-naked beach goers, Jay Martin goes in search of an authentic Ukranian meal.
Rumsfeld on Rumsfeld
Unsurprisingly, Donald Rumsfeld’s forthcoming memoirs Known and Unknown defends his legacy and its numerous controversies. On the issue of WMDs in Iraq, Rumsfeld insists neither he nor Dubya lied. “The less dramatic truth is that we we wrong,” Rummy writes.
